[He'll be more okay once he's slept; enough time being held, and he may well end up dozing off on Garrus unintentionally. Ryan shifts to get comfortable, curling against his side when his arms wrap around him.]

Seems like experience is always the best teacher here, huh? You can prepare all you want, but you really learn it in action.

[It's more like an idle thought than anything, his tone lighter, sounding almost distracted.]

...at least it's been that way for me. I don't know. Sometimes I'm still not convinced that I know much more about what I'm doing-- but at least we both got something out of it, yeah?

[It could be worse. They could have gone through Ajna and received nothing for their trouble, for almost dying. Actually dying, in Garrus' case.]